Sport: Who D'ya Like?

The sportswriters' first choice is Alsab (TIME, Jan. 12)despite the
fact that he has failed to win a race in six starts this year. Their
second choice is Requested, the Texas colt that beat Alsab in Florida's
Flamingo Stakes last February and beat Apache, pride of Broadway, in
New York's Wood Memorial last week. Kentucky hard-boots like the looks
of a pair of colts owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney: Shut Out, a worthy son
of the late great Equipoise, and Devil Diver, rated the most promising
Whitney youngster since Twenty Grand. Some diehards still think that
Warren Wright's in-again, out-again...